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...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...most responsible for the boom in boxers is John P. Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...
...didn't exactly collide with any undergraduate dog breeder, but the visit turned up a gent whose mother raises retrievers, another (Class of '06) who appreciated fine pointers, and a yokel from New Hampshire who lived for boxers and vice versa...
...that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave up as a breeder, decided to become a broker...
Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...